Jivin Ronen Shitrit lays it down ... > Hi > > I'm working on a device which include HW acceleration for few Encryption > Alg (AES, DES and 3DES) and few digest Alg (SHA1 and MD5). > My plan is to add support for this HW acceleration in a way that both > the IPSec and the dm-crypt will be able to use it, > In order to do so in efficient way I must use the HW engines in > asynchronous way. > I did some research and went over the entire mailing list and found, > that there are 2 main frameworks for Asynchronous crypto support, > both seems stable and both support few HW accelerators: > > Acrypto: http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/archive/acrypto/ > http://lwn.net/Articles/109475/ > with patch for using Acrypto through the IPsec, > but won't have any further development? > http://lwn.net/Articles/146802/ > > Linux-OCF: http://ocf-linux.sourceforge.net/ > no specific patch for using kernel IPSec, > under constant development. > > I also noticed another mail, asking the same question, but he didn't get > any firm answer: > http://lists.logix.cz/pipermail/cryptoapi/2005/000470.html
Probably because there is no firm answer :-) :-) > Any suggestion which framework should be used? > Any idea which framework is going to be integrated to the kernel > mainline? No idea. > Any suggestion which framework is easier for use? or more stable? > > Any patch for using the dm-crypt with any of the above framework? Not that I know of. > Any help will be appreciated. You didn't say what you are wishing to accelerate and in what environment (kernel, user, apps)? That may make your choice a little easier. Either way you are going to have to write a driver, so the effort there will be similar. So the difference *may* be in the application support, Cheers, Davidm -- David McCullough, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Custom Embedded Solutions + Security Ph:+61 734352815 Fx:+61 738913630 http://www.uCdot.org http://www.cyberguard.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
